OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux versus floppy

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Jun 10, 2003
• 573 views

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:20:41AM +0000, Jerry Story wrote:
<snip>
> Now I have two desktop icons for floppy: the original and the one I 
> made.
> 
> When I click on the original, it brings up Konqueror for floppy but 
> doesn't show what is on the floppy, and I know the floppy has stuff on 
> it, and it's not write-protected.
> 
> When I click on the new icon, it doesn't do anything except it gives a 
> message complaining about no filesystem type specified.
> 
> I think I may have destroyed /dev/fd0. It's still there but it is empty.
> 
> 
> Jerry Story
> 

try typing this from the command line as root:

mount -t msdos -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
ls /mnt/floppy
touch /mnt/floppy/testfile.123

If the above fails, then its either a bad floppy, bad floppy drive, bad
floppy driver, or bad filesystem driver.

jbrown

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